On Nov 11, 2011, at 18:21 , Niklas LindstrÃ¶m wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
>> We did discuss it: for each @vocab element there is a triple put into the graph. I think it was ISSUE-103.
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>> On Nov 11, 2011, at 17:12 , Shane McCarron wrote:
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>>> In the Sequence section, step 2, there is some strange text:
>>>> The value of @vocab is used to generate a triple as follows:
>>>> subject
>>>> base
>>>> predicate
>>>> http://www.w3.org/ns/rdfa#hasVocabulary
>>>> object
>>>> value from @vocab
>>>
>>> first. didn't we change the URI for the 'namespace' to some vocab space?
>>>
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>> No. That is clearly in the rdfa namespace.
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> Shouldn't that be 'usesVocabulary', as per [1]?
Oops, that is correct. Shane, will you change that?
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>>> Second, this seems odd. There can be hundreds of @vocab elements in a document. Why would I want to see this triple for each of them. Also, since the subject is base, it seems to me that I wouldn't have a way to know what vocab was related to what parts of the document.
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>> Hundreds? I do not think so. I would expect 3-4 @vocab usage in a document, but mostly one...
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> It may be that some authors choose to use different @vocab for
> different sections of the documents though (and if generating pages
> there might be lots of them). So although I too expect the same ratio
> as you, we can't be sure.
>
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>> You are right about the second statement, b.t.w. But the reason of having this triple is to allow processors to perform the vocabulary expansion, ie, the mini RDFS entailement, on the result graph. From that point of view, the origin is irrelevant, only the URI of the vocab is important. But if that information is not in the output graph, than no processor, other than the RDF distiller itself, can ever perform the right expansion.
>
> Unless they follow their noses on the used predicates (reasonably
> caching anything resolvable, after any 303). And/or chomps off
> everything after the last "#" or "/" and attempts to resolve the
> resulting IRI. The latter is theoretically incorrect (since IRIs are
> opaque) but would work for basically any published vocabulary in
> practice. That would be based on the assumption that expansion is
> desirable for *any* predicate used though, not just for anyone
> syntactically created using @vocab. I think we settled for the latter
> assumption, but I'm not entirely sure if that's proper.
>
> (It may be that this triple becomes as annoying to some as the
> xhv:stylesheet is today...)
To be honest, I am a bit uneasy reopening a closed issue. We have gone down that road and, unless there is a new viewpoint or fact coming up, we should not do that...
Sorry...
Ivan
>
> There is also one formally bad thing about using the value in @vocab
> as an object *IRI*. The actual vocabulary IRI isn't always the IRI
> ending with "#" (which we use because the construction of terms is
> based on string concatenation and not resolving). Some say it should
> never be, which is a topic all it's own. I'd recommend reading [2] for
> the gist of it, and [3] for some statistics by Richard Cyganiak. Based
> on this reasoning, if we need to keep the value in @vocab, it may be
> more correct to use a *literal* as the object in the triple (possibly
> an xsd:anyURI).
>
> Best regards,
> Niklas
>
> [1]: http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/meetings/2011-08-25
> [2]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2010Oct/0143.html
> [3]: http://groups.google.com/group/pedantic-web/msg/505c158813c9bff2
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>> Ivan
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>>>
>>> I guess I don't remember putting this text in, and I don't understand what problem it is trying to solve. Help?
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>>> Shane McCarron
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>>>
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